A historic heat wave is searing much of the Pacific Northwest, and it is not yet July a month when Oswill and many Portland residents typically experience the hottest days of the year.
Portland set an all-time, record-high temperature three days in a row, topping out at 116 degrees on Monday. Seattle hit 108 degrees, besting the all-time record it set just a day earlier. Across the border, Lytton, British Columbia registered 117.5 degrees on Monday the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, and around 48 degrees above what’s normal for this time of year.
Kristina Dahl, a senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says the heat wave is “unprecedented.”
“We saw heat records over the weekend only to be broken again the next day,” Dahl told CNN, “particularly for a part of the country where this